Heterotopic affinity spaces

What is it about?

This paper characterises a group Facebook page as a place where "dyslexic" students resist and contest the notion of dyslexia-as-deficit

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Why is it important?

The paper helps to challenge the pervasive deficit discourse of dyslexia. It is unique in doing so through advocating a new hybrid concept, the Heterotopic Affinity Space, drawn from the work of Michel Foucault and James Paul Gee. It is timely in considering the nature of a common contemporary educational configuration: a classroom space and an online space